Last week, when the U.S. again had something big to tell the world, NBC went on 24-hour short-wave schedule, broadcasting in six languages President Roosevelt's warning to the French people against Nazi collaboration, and the news of the Coast Guard boarding 13 French ships in U.S. ports.
That was the second time it had happened. Two weeks before, at a hint from the State Department, which called in several radio chains and requested widest possible dissemination of President Roosevelt's Staunton address, NBC went on a 24-hour schedule for a day to put the message across. Then the broadcasters hired ex-Associated Pressman Stanley...
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